50,000 doses of Moderna’s Spikevax Covid-19 vaccine have reached Armenia, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.

The Lithuanian government donated the vaccines to Armenia.

Lithuanian Ambassador to Armenia Inga Stanytė-Toločkienė was on hand at Yerevan’s Zvartnots Airport when the medicine arrived.

In June, the European Medicine Association approved the Spikevax brand name for Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine.

"Like other vaccines used in Armenia, the Spikevax vaccine is intended for   people over 18 years of age," the Ministry of Health said in a statement.